Quotes About Diplomacy

Before people crow about the absence of Weapons of Mass Destruction, I suggest they wait a bit.

We act in the interest of peace.

vital political truth: military victory can be secured only by reconciliation with the defeated. Although most empire-builders in the ancient world

Philippic (the seventh) in which he defended his record as a peacemaker but said that any compromise with Antony would be dishonorable. "I do not reject peace," he said, "but I am afraid of war disguised as peace.

37 B.C.; it was in his interest to ensure that the west was quiet before he set off against Parthia

squabbles between the signatories of the Treaty of Misenum

Octavian's request was awkward, and Antony angrily refused it.

Higgledy-piggledy, Franklin D. Roosevelt High over Jutland flew In from the East. 'Well,' quipped a Minister Plenipotentiary, 'Something is Groton in Denmark, at least.

For him, politeness was a surgical mask, something he slipped on before he took out his scalpel.

Ever since Israel has been a nation the United States has provided the leadership. Every president down to the ages has done this in a fairly balanced way, including George Bush senior, Gerald Ford, and others including myself and Bill Clinton.

The Cold War provided justification for a larger peacetime military, since we were never really at peace, or so the argument went.

I think we still have a chance if we continue with our work, if Iraq provides full cooperation, we should still be able to avoid a war.

That is the best Government, which best provides for war.

The United States provides Israel with crucial security and economic aid and invaluable political backing in the international arena.

Well, first of all, we now have everybody with the exception of India, Pakistan, and Israel, and I don't think these three countries are going to join by simply providing them an incentive, in terms of technology.

The United States will continue to be number one, and I do not see any country or group of countries taking the United States' place in providing global public goods that underpin security and prosperity. The United States functions as the world's de facto government.

Foreign policy can no longer be the province of just a few elites.

My position has always been to avoid violence to avoid provocation.

For far too long we have continued to mark our military prowess by the size of our forces: believing that numbers of ships, planes, and brigades is what most matters - just like during the Cold War.

The King of Prussia is innately a bad neighbor, but the English will also always be bad neighbors to France, and the sea has never prevented them from doing her great mischief.

I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology.

Hillary Clinton's progress as a public figure and politician can, in fact, be indexed perfectly by her relationship to Henry Kissinger.

Do we seek delicate phraseology in politics or other forms of public life? We do not.

Israel does not care about the international public opinion.